From: Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@...>
Date: 2007-01-27T08:09:08+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems 0.9.1 calling a gem with gem '<gem>'

> After upgrading to RubyGems 0.9.1, I'm seeing the following error:
>
> irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> gem 'uuid'
> => true
> irb(main):003:0> UUID.new
> NameError: uninitialized constant UUID
>         from (irb):3
> irb(main):004:0>
>
>
> This problem doesn't happen if I use:
> require 'uuid'

Well, you should use require, not gem. I.e.:
require 'rubygems'
require 'my_gem'

See  http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/3#page70 (section 3.4).
'gem' does something different than you think.


Regards,
Rimantas
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